Foreign News: Ambassador Ronald

Gilbert, Robert or OswaldOswald, Robert or Gilbert? For months
political observers have played a counting-out game with these names
trying to guess who was to succeed Sir Esme Howard as British
Ambassador to Washington. Last week came abrupt word from London that
neither Oswald, Robert or Gilbert, but Ronald is It. Sir Oswald Mosley,
famed Socialist baronet, remained Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Sir Robert Vansittart, secretary to Prime Minister MacDonald and
favorite of the counters-out, was appointed Head of the Foreign Office
as Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs....